As a high school kid I used to hear weekly radio broadcast by People’s temple from Georgetown and read periodic newspaper articles wondering who they were. Then the news of the massacre revealed the magnitude of the organization.
@@lynnrusling7792 I highly recommend reading the book "A Thousand Lives - The Untold Story Of Jonestown" by Julia Scheeres. Very detailed information & definitely one of the best books I've read about Jonestown. I was nearly 12 years old when this happened. Will never forget the news reports, reading newspaper articles, magazines, etc... I hope this information is helpful for your research.
@@lynnrusling7792, try looking up Rebecca Moore. Her sister Carolyn was one of Jim Jones mistresses. Rebecca lost Carolyn, another sister, and her nephew. She was nice enough to let me interview her and we had an extensive conversation about the People's Temple.
Thanks for making this. As someone who studies this since I watched the news report on 11/20/1978, there are few things to clear up: 1. The gentleman showing you around was a tourist guide. I highly doubt he was at the shooting for various reasons. Among them, Ryan’s departure was not planned. Thus how would he know as a youth when the congressman is was going to leave (unless he stayed all night and day at the airstrip). Additionally, per the survivors, there were no locals at the airstrip when it happened. 2. Not all the kids “refused drinks” and were given a shot. They were unable to get a concrete count as to how many had been given a shot, but it was only a small percentile. 3. The “Welcome toJonestown” sign you saw is not from the People’s Temple. In all of the footage ever recorded or photographed, I have never seen that sign anywhere. The Guyanese use that as a tourist trap (this the toll road). 4. The Peoples Temple was not in Oakland. It was in San Fransisco (Filmore district). Again thanks for the footage but wanted to share some facts for anyone reading the comments.
@@YourFreeBeats I was trying to be an asshole at first just because drama on CZcams is funny like that, but your humbleness has changed my view on life. Now you have a great day sir.
You can tell the tour guide is lying now that I'm tuned in. I just hate to think of the toddlers and babies who were administered poison through syringes. I can picture them crying and having seizures.
@@MissIngrilicious100 All the racist whyte people who said he was a good person before or he was crazy or brining up his childhood would never ever allow us to bring up being rasied in the ghetto with lack of resources if we go an rob them for what they have these racists child to deflect accountability for jones behavior accept saying jones killed 1,000 people an he was a criminal nothing else should ever be added to that instead of his own actions jones behavior was behind that nobody else don’t matter what the reason is none of it was justified when he just murdered peoples kids an you have the audacity to bring up the good he did before none of that matter whwn the end result was he forced them to die for him an only him that was evil that wasn’t anything else but that
@@johnnykurplutzo6789 Scandinavian nations are not Socialist, they practice social welfare. A socialist nation practices social welfare. In contrast the Scandinavian nations practice Capitalism and also have nice Social Welfare systems.
Hard to say what Jim Jones believed in. He talked about socialism. He never practiced socialism. While others toiled from sun up to sun set he lived in an air conditioned cabin eating luxury foods, drinking cognac. While he forbade most to have routine sexual relations he had any number of women, and men, he used for gratification. Jones didn't believe in anything, including death.
Thank you for your service. It’s things like this people don’t think about when it comes to what an average person on a military base sees on a daily basis. One day your fuckin around with the guys during PT the next your on your way to South America to participate in a clean up of the largest American loss of life prior to 9/11. All my respect goes out to you. Ive never even thought of those men and women or how they felt after dealing with the aftermath of such a tragedy.
MR MAC HUDSON, I AM VERY SORRY YOU HAD TO FACE SUCH A SCENE AND WHAT A TRAGEDY TO THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED REAL COURAGE AND COMPASSION, I CAN UNDERSTAND THE TRAUMAS. GOD BLESS THAT YOU OVERCAME THAT ASPECTS OF YOUR JOB BEING IN THE ARMY, IF I MAY SAY..
I was on a launch traveling to EISS located on Wakenaam Island when an older student was reading the current newspaper with the front page headline of the massacre! I was no older than 14.
I remember this clear as a bell and I was only 9. We were living in Oklahoma City and I think I remember it because the news stories were constant, the adults were always talking about it and I remember feelings so scared and sad for the people. This was one of those world events you just never forget, like 9/11.
My daddy helped to lean up the bodies. He talked about how traumatic is was for him. I'm Guyanese, my dad was working in the sugar estate when he heard the news
Spirits? Prayers? The two don't mix. Spirits don't exist (except heavenly angels) so prayers are meaningless because spirits are none existent. "The living are conscious that they will die, but the dead are conscious of nothing at all." Of the various resurrections in The Bible, not one of them even hinted that they experienced any sort of life while having been dead.
@@markuse3472 You should check out the Glory Be Prayer. Great example of "mixing" prayer and a spirit. You may never have witnessed a spirit but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm pretty sure the people resurrected in the Bible had nothing to do with writing about their experience. So they didn't "say" anything either way. If you read my comment I said "Prayers to all the innocent." Meaning those who were murdered by Jim Jones and his murder squad.
@@olivepoola9153 The only spirits that the masses see are demons, demons wanting the masses to believe in anything, anything as long as it is not what Gods Word teaches. So, then, spirits do exist, but they are demons leading many astray.
@@markuse3472So that's you're problem your pagan following Gods Word not Christian following God's Word! If you meant the Bible then you may want to check out 1 Corinthians 12 verses 1-11.
Wow I was a TSU POLICE AT GEC IN SOPIA WHEN A MEMBER OF JONESTOWN FROM THE HEADQUARTERS AT LAMAHA STREET CAME TO ASK FOR CHARITY AT GEC I WAS THE POLICE ESCORTING THIS YOUNG GIRL.I SAID TO HER,"WHY WOULD YOU LEFT GREAT AMERICA TO COME TO GUYANA?SHE SAID FOR MISSIONARY CHURCH BUSINESS.I SAID TO HER I WILL SOMEDAY LIKE TO LIVE IN THE USA OR CANADA. I WAS SO SAD TO KNOW SHE DIED.
That man is a legend who's talking the story as a Guyanese 🇬🇾 i air alot about this now im seeing this story watching with tears all down my face he had no heart 💔 😢 😔 😞
All the racist whyte people who said he was a good person before or he was crazy or brining up his childhood would never ever allow us to bring up being rasied in the ghetto with lack of resources if we go an rob them for what they have these racists child to deflect accountability for jones behavior accept saying jones killed 1,000 people an he was a criminal nothing else should ever be added to that instead of his own actions jones behavior was behind that nobody else don’t matter what the reason is none of it was justified when he just murdered peoples kids an you have the audacity to bring up the good he did before none of that matter whwn the end result was he forced them to die for him an only him that was evil that wasn’t anything else but that
@@tacticalcrusader3709 There was a large forest fire that took whatever was left of Jonestown in 1985. There would have been more evidence of the commune if that fire had not happened, for example, the cassava mill would have likely survived the elements if it hadn't been melted in the fire.
"Nothing remains at the site." The Guyanese government put up a memorial and interpretive display in time for the 40th anniversary. Visitors incl Jones' 2 sons have found the flattened galvanized tub that held the fatal grape ade. Guyana needs to be known for other things like prime minister then president Janet Jagan, the only U.S. citizen or national to become head of government or state of another country.
Chaddi Jagan was trained as a Dentist in the US. He proclaimed himself as a socialist or Marxist. This did not endear him to the US or British. Guyana has a huge amount of mineral wealth around Jonestown. Today gold miners go about the land finding nuggets and dust. In the past Union Carbide ran a Manganese operation out of Matthews Ridge. The oil railway, I think, was built with their financial backing. Today the rail line is gone. Fun fact - Jonestown was rented to People's Temple for a few reasons. 1. The Guyanese and Venezuelans argue over who has territorial claims to the region were Jonestown existed. 2. The Guyanese badly want people to settle in that area. They tried to entice others to settle. Most of the colonies failed, though one group did grow marijuana for sale. 3. Jones was especially appealing because his group were US Nationals. The Guyanese state felt that Venezuelans invading the area might attract attention from the US if there were 1,000 Americans in the line of invasion. Today Guyana has "eco-tourism" operations going, where people can experience virgin rain forest. The tours are pleasant from what I am told.
@@jamallabarge2665 You basically got it correct. Which year was the railway scrapped? When I traveled that railway around 1980 , it brought back memories of the railway along the coast. If your'e into "eco-tourism" you will enjoy it. Beautiful.
I grew up in Ukiah California , my grandmother knew several members quite well and even went to the peoples temple a couple times she said the music was to wild for her .
Unfortunately some of the ppl interviewed in this video are actually not called amerindians. Guyana has 6 different races one of them being Amerindian.
I've seen the documentary on youtube for this they have actual recordings from jim and the people and the words that come from their mouths would keep you up at night.
Yes, some of his followers were just as crazy as he was! Christine Miller trying to stop the massacre, by asking for the alternative to go to Russia, but being shouted down by other followers. Tragic!
That falls which is the longest single drop of 741 ft in the world is pronounced Kai-chore, spelt Kaieteur, derived from an amerindian(native) word meaning old man’s falls.
only around 20% drank that poison willingly imo. Babies/kids can't consent and the elderly are helpless and even most of the younger adults didn't drink it willingly. They had abscesses on their heads, arms and legs from being forcefully injected.
yes .it happened under the rule of the dictator Forbes BURNHAM. Jim Jones supplied white females to the ministers of the Burnham government. The government officials who visited the site, took the valuables and money for themselves.
@@harrypaul7329 FROM ONE DICTATOR TO ANOTHER, LORD HELP GUYANA ...NOW WE HAVE THE INDIAN DICTATOR IN GUYANA WHO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE THE NATIVES PEOPLE OF GUYANA 😩😩😩😩
@@redskyatnight123 Well, I did say "some Brits" not all. Various forum boards and especially in the DailyNews comment sections when the story is about Americans. I would post a link but CZcams keeps deleting my posts when I use a URL.
@@redskyatnight123 And I'm sure they're being facetious by using that word, as well as calling us Yanks. I'm quite sure you heard that used more than once in passing.
I was very young when I was told this and I live in Guyana and when this happened none of it was in like newspapers nothing was on TV nothing publicly made it into the media I guess they didn't want to scare anyone but people Knew by word of mouth and that's how we knew but I must agree with the point you said that Guyana would have some really great the tourism because we have the most disturbing stories you have never heard in your life, great for those youtubers that are into ghost hunting
Yes you are right.The only way Guyana was known in the world is by such a dastardly act. Burnham gave him permission to inhabit the land and they are the ones who destroyed the landmarks of Jonestown.It would have fetched a pretty dollar now in tourism. But you what better to forget about such an evil act.
@@jatoryaahdesouza6192 Maybe you were too young.It was splashed in the newspapers and the radio kept broadcasting it all day .At first people thought it was fake news because they never heard of something like this before. But eventually....... Guyana didn't have TV then.
Agreed, but it would also be morally wrong to profit off of something like that. Imagine after 9/11 if they put gates up and told people to pay to see the monument? It's messed up to profit off that.
@@writer46m72 Part 2 is about Suriname and Part is about French Guiana. But there is another video that is labelled Part 2 that showed the boarding and then ended showing the start of the shooting. Confusing.
The aqua colored “Welcome to Jonestown” signs were erected at some point after 1978. You can tell because on the main one, “Peoples Temple” is misspelled with an apostrophe
the only question I have is the air strip with a shootout took place why didn't the Guayanan soldiers get involved? there seems to be a lot of structures at that airstrip was it connected to another town or was there another town nearby?
Ash My Blunt , The Caracom Headquarters ( Carribean Community ) is in the Capitol city of Guyana , Georgetown not to far from the gift land mall , I think it is in an area called Turkeyin or near it.🙂
Do they have electricity and a pure water supply.Jim Jones had dug a well at Jonestown. They can clean it up and channel the water to the village.It is so sad. One man spoke good things about him where he would give then food supplies.After the massacre the Guyana government recovered vast amounts of medical supplies there.They had their own hospital.Maybe doctors and nurses among all those people.Jim Jones was a devil in every aspect of his life
My understanding was that there was a physician and a nurse at Jonestown. I read that People's Temple paid for the physician's training and that the physician was trained and served a residency in the United States. There were also multiple babies born there.
@@MiguelHernandez-rw4xu I agree. When they said women found him.attractive it is hard to believe. You can see the evil in his eyes before sun glasses. I think he is ugly.
True. Most people don't know of Guyana but have heard of British Guiana from their history classes in high school or university. I think that is why he called it British Guiana.
Officially: "The Jonestown community experienced several deaths before November 18, 1978. Eight people died of natural causes in Jonestown between August 1977 and November 1978. Seven of the deaths were of seniors, between the ages of 63 and 78; the eighth was an infant who lived 18 days (...) All eight bodies were buried in a small cemetery in Jonestown itself. The jungle has reclaimed the burial site - along with the rest of the Jonestown community - and the exact location of the cemetery is uncharted." Source: Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple (2019)
Your only 15 yr old unless they teach it in school or something you couldn't know it was either in 1979 or 1981 I remember hearing about it on the evening news when I was 19 back then there are documentaries on youtube about how he started out in the U.S. and why he went to Guyana , stay away from people like that he was a very bad man. It's good that the area where he was is all covered over with the natural green there.
@@williambahrenfuss4961 I live on Coastal areas being more specific the most populated area Its sad how my country fights for political power based on racism and still suffers and no seems to care when they have power no not. They rather talk crap and not feed people, I'll go so far as to say even disabilities are ignored and the families rather ask for public support. Schools rather teach shit that doesn't benefits most of us and history is based bout on so little when there much to learn not saying or judging there teachings bcaz of this but because they repeat it over and over again since primary/middle school till on to high/secondary. To be honest this country is gold but people don't seem to realize it. But there is more crap to cover but I'm lazy to continue.
@@jamalhoosaney8614 I live on the coastal area,I'm also 17 and I know about Jonestown since I was about 8. They are tuns of Guyana history and Massacre you're yet to caught with since you don't know about this one.
@@jamalhoosaney8614 ECD R4 seen a few roadside signs and advertising BBQ and such at "Jonestown" but I'm sure it's not THE Jonestown the actual area is located to the NW of that area and W of Georgetown it's all weeded over. Jones was wacked out ...always use good sense. 👍🏿
@@jamalhoosaney8614 I wonder what they teach in Guyana school these days. I am saddened by your comments. I grew up on the East Coast of Demerara in a poor family. Worked in the farms.Went to high school .Worked in GT. Went abroad and studied. Returned to Guyana .Worked with the Government. Traveled to a lot of places in Guyana. I survived the political and racial strive in Guyana. You need to put your shoulder to the wheel and be positive and make something out of life.
I don't think the local was blaming the us government. He heard on the audio tape, which the presenter played to him, mention that a handful of people were to blame, and it sounded like he was theorising about who those few may have meant. I'm pretty sure the few people referred to were the 17 temple members who tried to leave with Congressman Ryan.
I know why the man blamed the US government..It is because the people who wanted to escape couldn't go to the US Embassy due to Jone's had people helping him in the embassy and they would report the people who came to them for help.
No dumbass he held them there at gun point have you seen paradise lost or is this the only thing you know of jones town is this one video that really dosnt talk about the entire thing
@@charlestorruella8591 That too, but there were some who got passed the guns and went for help at the embassy, but jones had people there as well..Dwyer worked at the embassy and was friends with jones.
@@KaceyIlliot There was a guard tower that oversee the commune. The commune was about 3 miles from the main road. The airstrip and the port were about 3 to 4 miles away. Look at Google Earth and see where Jonestown and where Georgetown are located.
Let's hope that the city of Jonestown in Region 1 (Barima-Waini) is re-founded and begins a new cycle of life, prosperity and development where that tragic event occurred.
I don’t think it was a year. When his secretary fled he wanted to shoot everyone in the head. But didn’t have enough bullets and that’s when the search began. I think she escaped maybe six months prior
@@randysingh6548 That's no true. Port Kaietuma was an active Port that big boats used to go to bring out the Manganese ore.There was a rail from there to Matthew's ridge about 26 miles. There was active airstrip there.
Not only was it planned but we’ll orchestrated the problem is the racists trying to bring up excuses for this mans behavior he planned this for years there is no excuses he planned to kill all of those people with himself so the only thing I should be hearing is jones is a murderer that’s it
It was the PNC government of Guyana led by Forbes Burnham who sold Jim Jones the land that his people cleared and settled on. The blame should be shared by all concerned.
@@richard594 Guyana is in great hands under the current administration. Thankful that after 23 years it looks like a country again, with local voting restored to elect local government. Its sad that the PPP took away these basic and extremely important rights in our Democracy. Hence, to see the transformation of so much in terms of infrastructure and investment in education, hospitals and basic government buildings and technology as well as street lights, roads and job opportunities, in such little time gives this foreigner, hope for her home country.
There were Guyanese defense force people at the Airport. They were guarding a plane that required repair. They watched the shootings, saying later, "This was a dispute between Americans and was not our affair". Most likely their mission was to guard the plane. If they had intervened without orders they would have been disciplined. Soldiers are not police officers.
@@lamanchamediatube Thank you very much for posting this video. Most ventures in life fail, it's how we try again that matters. I wish the people of Guyana and the survivors of Peoples Temple, much happiness.
Really you would have keep him alive he killed himself what more can you do to punish him how could you punish him by keeping him alive so he can infect others with his sickness
ABSOLUTELY, HE DID HIS SECRECY AND WAS COLLECTING MONIES FROM JIM JONES BUT NOTHING LASTED FOREVER FOR BOTH OF THEM. THEY DIED TO NOT REAPING WHAT EVIL THEY HAD.SOWED.
No that was last year that we had a jim jones wannabe president and I hear he's opened his church up again so he can try to be president again in 2024 what say you now
R.I.P. to all those who lost life during that time. In my opinion {just my own} this has c.i.a. antics all interwoven in & thru it. At that time Guyana's leader Forbes Burnam had very close relation's with Russia & Cuba..Jim Jones could have been an agent sent to Guyana. Jones had shared similar concepts with these leaders {co-intelpro}. The death's of Americans on foreign soil could/maybe used in hopes to deploy US military to Guyana, giving them key spots on South American territory to spy on Venezuela, Cuba etc. at that time.
900 people didn't commit suicide. Many were murdered by the henchmen of this madman. Some of them are still alive and breathing free air. That is another tragedy of itself.
I was a teen when this occurred, my mother was always speaking about Jim Jones, when this occurred, she was in the States n wrote me about it, thank God she didn’t become involved in it. She, (my mom), thought he was a good man, preaching the word of God. President Burnham didn’t sold that land to Jim Jones, Jim Jones, told President Burnham, that he was opening a missionary, and asked for permission to build there, many things said here isn’t true, I was still residing in Guyana, it was awful, the followers, thought it was a skit, never knew it was real. Jim Jones had some of his women followers pregnant, he took away their live savings, everything they owned, look, this brings back a terrible feelings to me. Jim Jones didn’t die, he never drank that cool aid, he got away n had plastic surgery, most likely, he’s dead now.
This production has so much inaccuracies.,..... 1.it wasn’t British Guiana at that time, it was Guyana already an independent and republic nation. 2 Guyana didn’t refuse to bury the bodies, those bodies were US Nationals and they were coming to collect their dead. 3 the local man that was speaking Mr. Vince Duke is not an Amerindian, he’s an Afro Guyanese.
I read that the Guyanese did not want the Jonestown dead. They insisted that the US remove the bodies. I do not know why. The Guyanese removed money, valuables, and salt and pepper packets. The Guyanese did not use these, found them novel and used them in government offices for many years afterwards. Locals removed the sheet metal and other valuables for their own purposes. The US government yielded to their demands after the Carter Administration was influenced by California legislators to return the bodies. The US had a large Graves and Registration ability because of the Cold War and the recently ended Vietnam War. Most of the dead were reclaimed by their families. About four hundred were buried in a mass grave in or near San Fransisco California. Cremated remains of some victims were located in the last few years. They were added to the mass grave with their rest of their fallen. Appropriate I think, that they are together.
@fyranism What makes u think he isn't amerindians? My great grandmother is amerindian therefore my mother and her siblings are part amerindian. My uncle married a full blooded amerindian so my cousin is of a full amerindian mother and a part amerindian father but if u see my cousins u would think they were 100%black. Also if u do real history those people u call amerindian are NOT the true amerindians. The European described amerindians/native Indians as the people u now call black.
Staecy Vandeyar even so, you nor I don’t know what his full linage is , but they gave an impression that he was what we call in Guyana today as Amerindians. The discussion of who is pure 100% is a topic for another discussion. That man may or may not have had Amerindian heritage but if he did they needed to call him for what he is which is mixed . False advertising
One has to wonder if he's really this ignorant of the subject (which if he is, he has no business making a documentary) or if he's deliberately being dishonest. Perhaps a bit of both?
@ihategoogle Ok, I do understand and believe what you said too but why kept it a secret for so long? Obviously, it was a source of foul play and money..My dear,GOD IS GREAT, WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS LIGHT, WHERE THERE ARE LIES, TRUTH PREVAIL.
There is a lot of mis and disinformation in this video. Very typical Evangelist spin on anything Christian's do that is pure evil. One must wonder, is he actually ignorant or is he being deliberately dishonest. Maybe a bit of both?
As a high school kid I used to hear weekly radio broadcast by People’s temple from Georgetown and read periodic newspaper articles wondering who they were. Then the news of the massacre revealed the magnitude of the organization.
It's not so bad.
@@johnnykurplutzo6789 bruh, jones was a devil. Even the devil would despise him
I'm studying this I was only 6mnths in 1978 any information would be appreciated thankyou
@@lynnrusling7792 I highly recommend reading the book "A Thousand Lives - The Untold Story Of Jonestown" by Julia Scheeres. Very detailed information & definitely one of the best books I've read about Jonestown. I was nearly 12 years old when this happened. Will never forget the news reports, reading newspaper articles, magazines, etc... I hope this information is helpful for your research.
@@lynnrusling7792, try looking up Rebecca Moore. Her sister Carolyn was one of Jim Jones mistresses. Rebecca lost Carolyn, another sister, and her nephew. She was nice enough to let me interview her and we had an extensive conversation about the People's Temple.
Thanks for making this. As someone who studies this since I watched the news report on 11/20/1978, there are few things to clear up:
1. The gentleman showing you around was a tourist guide. I highly doubt he was at the shooting for various reasons. Among them, Ryan’s departure was not planned. Thus how would he know as a youth when the congressman is was going to leave (unless he stayed all night and day at the airstrip). Additionally, per the survivors, there were no locals at the airstrip when it happened.
2. Not all the kids “refused drinks” and were given a shot. They were unable to get a concrete count as to how many had been given a shot, but it was only a small percentile.
3. The “Welcome toJonestown” sign you saw is not from the People’s Temple. In all of the footage ever recorded or photographed, I have never seen that sign anywhere. The Guyanese use that as a tourist trap (this the toll road).
4. The Peoples Temple was not in Oakland. It was in San Fransisco (Filmore district).
Again thanks for the footage but wanted to share some facts for anyone reading the comments.
Sure you been researching this? You called it a "shooting" which is definitely wasn't
@@dogburrito3989 I stand corrected. This was a strangulation. Not a shooting. You have exposed me and I feel shame. Thank you for humbling me.
@@YourFreeBeats I was trying to be an asshole at first just because drama on CZcams is funny like that, but your humbleness has changed my view on life. Now you have a great day sir.
You can tell the tour guide is lying now that I'm tuned in. I just hate to think of the toddlers and babies who were administered poison through syringes. I can picture them crying and having seizures.
You wrote all that and still was wrong 😂🤣
And for anyone that want the facts, disregard the original comment and research for yourself.
He was absolutely insane
All socialists are insane!
Indeed!
Evil, not insane
@@MissIngrilicious100 Both
@@MissIngrilicious100 All the racist whyte people who said he was a good person before or he was crazy or brining up his childhood would never ever allow us to bring up being rasied in the ghetto with lack of resources if we go an rob them for what they have these racists child to deflect accountability for jones behavior accept saying jones killed 1,000 people an he was a criminal nothing else should ever be added to that instead of his own actions jones behavior was behind that nobody else don’t matter what the reason is none of it was justified when he just murdered peoples kids an you have the audacity to bring up the good he did before none of that matter whwn the end result was he forced them to die for him an only him that was evil that wasn’t anything else but that
Jim Jones was insane. I wish people wouldn’t try and blame the tragedy on an ideology. Jim Jones didn’t believe in anything but death.
Go
@ihategoogle like the extreme Misandry here in the US
@Charles Charlemagne what are you implying lol? Scandinavian countries poison their citizens?
@@johnnykurplutzo6789 Scandinavian nations are not Socialist, they practice social welfare. A socialist nation practices social welfare. In contrast the Scandinavian nations practice Capitalism and also have nice Social Welfare systems.
Hard to say what Jim Jones believed in. He talked about socialism. He never practiced socialism. While others toiled from sun up to sun set he lived in an air conditioned cabin eating luxury foods, drinking cognac. While he forbade most to have routine sexual relations he had any number of women, and men, he used for gratification.
Jones didn't believe in anything, including death.
I was stationed at Charleston SC when this occurred I was one of the Airmen sent there to bag up bodies. Terrible, haunting memories from this.
Mac Hudson I’m so sorry that you had to witness that and be a part of the clean up. It must have been so crazy and traumatic
Thank you for your service. It’s things like this people don’t think about when it comes to what an average person on a military base sees on a daily basis. One day your fuckin around with the guys during PT the next your on your way to South America to participate in a clean up of the largest American loss of life prior to 9/11. All my respect goes out to you. Ive never even thought of those men and women or how they felt after dealing with the aftermath of such a tragedy.
@@maxherrlin241 no.netsuite
For real?
MR MAC HUDSON, I AM VERY SORRY YOU HAD TO FACE SUCH A SCENE AND WHAT A TRAGEDY TO THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED REAL COURAGE AND COMPASSION, I CAN UNDERSTAND THE TRAUMAS. GOD BLESS THAT YOU OVERCAME THAT ASPECTS OF YOUR JOB BEING IN THE ARMY, IF I MAY SAY..
This is great, thanks for re-posting. A slightly eerie recreation of the famous airstrip shots of 1978 at 17:12...
Your welcome. Never thought about that
@@lamanchamediatube Dude you completely misrepresented the deaths at the Airstrip, of the Senators posse of 23 and the 30 defectors only 4 died 🤦♂
No. Don't know what you mean. Listen again
Well made video, I am very impressed. Thank you guys for making it.
am a proud Guyanese 🇬🇾 this is very sad 😢
Great Documentary My Brother I Am Sending Gratitude to you & Your Crew 🙏🏾✌🏽
Saddest day of my life when I asked my Dad on 1978 were was my grandmother because I handnt seen her since 1973
@윤혜원 that's sweet
What was your grandmothers name???
@@TopGJP why do you ask.
@@candancefoster4082 idk 🤷🏻♂️ just was curious
lol
I can clearly remember this. I was 11 years old. What a crazy lunatic.
I was on a launch traveling to EISS located on Wakenaam Island when an older student was reading the current newspaper with the front page headline of the massacre! I was no older than 14.
I was 13 years old
It was 10 days before my 22nd birthday.
I remember this clear as a bell and I was only 9. We were living in Oklahoma City and I think I remember it because the news stories were constant, the adults were always talking about it and I remember feelings so scared and sad for the people. This was one of those world events you just never forget, like 9/11.
My daddy helped to lean up the bodies. He talked about how traumatic is was for him. I'm Guyanese, my dad was working in the sugar estate when he heard the news
You can almost feel their spirits when they're walking around the overgrown community. That lands gotta be cursed. Prayers to all the innocent.
Spirits? Prayers? The two don't mix. Spirits don't exist (except heavenly angels) so prayers are meaningless because spirits are none existent. "The living are conscious that they will die, but the dead are conscious of nothing at all." Of the various resurrections in The Bible, not one of them even hinted that they experienced any sort of life while having been dead.
@@markuse3472 You should check out the Glory Be Prayer. Great example of "mixing" prayer and a spirit. You may never have witnessed a spirit but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm pretty sure the people resurrected in the Bible had nothing to do with writing about their experience. So they didn't "say" anything either way. If you read my comment I said "Prayers to all the innocent." Meaning those who were murdered by Jim Jones and his murder squad.
@@olivepoola9153 The only spirits that the masses see are demons, demons wanting the masses to believe in anything, anything as long as it is not what Gods Word teaches. So, then, spirits do exist, but they are demons leading many astray.
@@markuse3472So that's you're problem your pagan following Gods Word not Christian following God's Word! If you meant the Bible then you may want to check out 1 Corinthians 12 verses 1-11.
Spirits? Have another
Wow I was a TSU POLICE AT GEC IN SOPIA WHEN A MEMBER OF JONESTOWN FROM THE HEADQUARTERS AT LAMAHA STREET CAME TO ASK FOR CHARITY AT GEC I WAS THE POLICE ESCORTING THIS YOUNG GIRL.I SAID TO HER,"WHY WOULD YOU LEFT GREAT AMERICA TO COME TO GUYANA?SHE SAID FOR MISSIONARY CHURCH BUSINESS.I SAID TO HER I WILL SOMEDAY LIKE TO LIVE IN THE USA OR CANADA. I WAS SO SAD TO KNOW SHE DIED.
Lyyian
Very interesting video blessings
The way he dragged those people was just so cruel on a very different level...
Yes it was
Thanks for sharing this.
That man is a legend who's talking the story as a Guyanese 🇬🇾 i air alot about this now im seeing this story watching with tears all down my face he had no heart 💔 😢 😔 😞
All the racist whyte people who said he was a good person before or he was crazy or brining up his childhood would never ever allow us to bring up being rasied in the ghetto with lack of resources if we go an rob them for what they have these racists child to deflect accountability for jones behavior accept saying jones killed 1,000 people an he was a criminal nothing else should ever be added to that instead of his own actions jones behavior was behind that nobody else don’t matter what the reason is none of it was justified when he just murdered peoples kids an you have the audacity to bring up the good he did before none of that matter whwn the end result was he forced them to die for him an only him that was evil that wasn’t anything else but that
Amazing video. Thank you
To hear that recording in the spot it happened must be an creepy feeling
Yes it is. You can see how moved he was. A man of little emotion otherwise. Thanks for commenting on that
@@lamanchamediatube Was the pavilion still there? I thought there was a memorial erected at the site.
@@tacticalcrusader3709 There was a large forest fire that took whatever was left of Jonestown in 1985. There would have been more evidence of the commune if that fire had not happened, for example, the cassava mill would have likely survived the elements if it hadn't been melted in the fire.
Visited this place years ago, Erie feelings.
You went all the way there for that?
@@JB-bp6rw .
They are other haunted sites in Guyana
Detroit is worse
@@johnnykurplutzo6789 How is Detroit worse?
1:35 I would like to mention a mistake here. Some did drink willingly, but a large portion, if not most, were murdered.
"Nothing remains at the site." The Guyanese government put up a memorial and interpretive display in time for the 40th anniversary.
Visitors incl Jones' 2 sons have found the flattened galvanized tub that held the fatal grape ade.
Guyana needs to be known for other things like prime minister then president Janet Jagan, the only U.S. citizen or national to become head of government or state of another country.
Yes it's sad. They should put up something of hope
Chaddi Jagan was trained as a Dentist in the US. He proclaimed himself as a socialist or Marxist. This did not endear him to the US or British.
Guyana has a huge amount of mineral wealth around Jonestown. Today gold miners go about the land finding nuggets and dust. In the past Union Carbide ran a Manganese operation out of Matthews Ridge. The oil railway, I think, was built with their financial backing. Today the rail line is gone.
Fun fact - Jonestown was rented to People's Temple for a few reasons.
1. The Guyanese and Venezuelans argue over who has territorial claims to the region were Jonestown existed.
2. The Guyanese badly want people to settle in that area. They tried to entice others to settle. Most of the colonies failed, though one group did grow marijuana for sale.
3. Jones was especially appealing because his group were US Nationals. The Guyanese state felt that Venezuelans invading the area might attract attention from the US if there were 1,000 Americans in the line of invasion.
Today Guyana has "eco-tourism" operations going, where people can experience virgin rain forest. The tours are pleasant from what I am told.
@@lamanchamediatube The interpretive display may show a message of hope or maybe an admonition of never again.
@@jamallabarge2665 You basically got it correct. Which year was the railway scrapped? When I traveled that railway around 1980 , it brought back memories of the railway along the coast. If your'e into "eco-tourism" you will enjoy it. Beautiful.
An was a nasty racist that encourage her husband to commit some atrocious acts against the African population in that country..
I grew up in Ukiah California , my grandmother knew several members quite well and even went to the peoples temple a couple times she said the music was to wild for her .
Lol
Unfortunately some of the ppl interviewed in this video are actually not called amerindians. Guyana has 6 different races one of them being Amerindian.
doesnt matter
He is a sick man 😢🔥🔥🔥
What are his diagnosis?
@@donnaking7439 narcissist
Socialists are sick people!
I've seen the documentary on youtube for this they have actual recordings from jim and the people and the words that come from their mouths would keep you up at night.
Yes, some of his followers were just as crazy as he was! Christine Miller trying to stop the massacre, by asking for the alternative to go to Russia, but being shouted down by other followers. Tragic!
That falls which is the longest single drop of 741 ft in the world is pronounced Kai-chore, spelt Kaieteur, derived from an amerindian(native) word meaning old man’s falls.
Thank you.
Thanks
Sick Sick Sick man.
I'd love to see side by side comparisons in the jungle of what used to be at the compound and what it looks like now
only around 20% drank that poison willingly imo. Babies/kids can't consent and the elderly are helpless and even most of the younger adults didn't drink it willingly. They had abscesses on their heads, arms and legs from being forcefully injected.
Hi guys can I ask how much the ticket to travel Philippines to guyana ? because I really want to visit the jonestown
Is Philippines is not enough to you?
@@MateusKADITA No I love my country I just want to visit Guyana, because of Jonestown.
That dangerous
Republic of Guyana 🇬🇾
yes .it happened under the rule of the dictator Forbes BURNHAM.
Jim Jones supplied white females to the ministers of the Burnham government.
The government officials who visited the site, took the valuables and money for themselves.
@@harrypaul7329 I gotta read into this. Ty
@@harrypaul7329 FROM ONE DICTATOR TO ANOTHER, LORD HELP GUYANA
...NOW WE HAVE THE INDIAN DICTATOR IN GUYANA WHO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE THE NATIVES PEOPLE OF GUYANA 😩😩😩😩
@@yahwehloveme6819 stop adopting other peoples God..and traditions.
you're African not Jew.
Interesting stuff. I had my son watch this. Educational.
Thanks Brandon!
Thanks
Doable
Religion can turn a person into madness.
That’s not the original sign to Jonestown. And do anyone know the actual coordinates to the place. I’ve tried researching it and can’t find it.
It was not British Guyana when that took place It was Guyana , the British was kicked out 1966
LOL, some Brits still refer to the States as The Colonies.
@@brownsamurai3070 really im British and have never met or heard another brit refer to the us as the colonies,
@@redskyatnight123 Well, I did say "some Brits" not all. Various forum boards and especially in the DailyNews comment sections when the story is about Americans. I would post a link but CZcams keeps deleting my posts when I use a URL.
@@redskyatnight123 And I'm sure they're being facetious by using that word, as well as calling us Yanks. I'm quite sure you heard that used more than once in passing.
@@brownsamurai3070 yes deffo yanks,when I was in Afghanistan I heard alot,but always a term of endearment, and the occasional banter 😆
Mac Hudson, would you be willing to share your story about what happened?
I want to visit this place
I'm in
That was a sad day for Guyana
Guyana is missing out in weird tourism, they could make some bucks there, if the camp were still standing, but it was taken down.
Weird Tourism alright, while 900 spirits are lingering in the jungle...
I was very young when I was told this and I live in Guyana and when this happened none of it was in like newspapers nothing was on TV nothing publicly made it into the media I guess they didn't want to scare anyone but people Knew by word of mouth and that's how we knew but I must agree with the point you said that Guyana would have some really great the tourism because we have the most disturbing stories you have never heard in your life, great for those youtubers that are into ghost hunting
Yes you are right.The only way Guyana was known in the world is by such a dastardly act.
Burnham gave him permission to inhabit the land and they are the ones who destroyed the landmarks of Jonestown.It would have fetched a pretty dollar now in tourism.
But you what better to forget about such an evil act.
@@jatoryaahdesouza6192 Maybe you were too young.It was splashed in the newspapers and the radio kept broadcasting it all day .At first people thought it was fake news because they never heard of something like this before.
But eventually.......
Guyana didn't have TV then.
Agreed, but it would also be morally wrong to profit off of something like that. Imagine after 9/11 if they put gates up and told people to pay to see the monument? It's messed up to profit off that.
Those few houses around that area, are those houses from Jim Jones and does anyone live there now?
great video. But where is part 2 and 3?
Writer46 M: I will keep looking for it.
@@essarroyrupchand4007 it’s okay, you don’t have to. 🙂Thanks for posting this one!
@@writer46m72 Part 2 is about Suriname and Part is about French Guiana. But there is another video that is labelled Part 2 that showed the boarding and then ended showing the start of the shooting. Confusing.
@@essarroyrupchand4007 got it! Makes sense
The White Messiah Complex.
I hate that my beautiful country is known for this horrific event. 🇬🇾
Sorry
He was a mad man
The aqua colored “Welcome to Jonestown” signs were erected at some point after 1978. You can tell because on the main one, “Peoples Temple” is misspelled with an apostrophe
the only question I have is the air strip with a shootout took place why didn't the Guayanan soldiers get involved? there seems to be a lot of structures at that airstrip was it connected to another town or was there another town nearby?
They didn't want to get involved in an American conflict.
So sad and scary
Interesting the people of Guyana have a Caribbean accent
Ash my Blunt we’re culturally Caribbean
@Ash my Blunt ...Yes we are consider Caribbean people ( basically same culture) and we also speak good and clear English - 🇬🇾😀
@@derranbascom6435 If you say so devil
Ash My Blunt , The Caracom Headquarters ( Carribean Community ) is in the Capitol city of Guyana , Georgetown not to far from the gift land mall , I think it is in an area called Turkeyin or near it.🙂
Do they have electricity and a pure water supply.Jim Jones had dug a well at Jonestown. They can clean it up and channel the water to the village.It is so sad.
One man spoke good things about him where he would give then food supplies.After the massacre the Guyana government recovered vast amounts of medical supplies there.They had their own hospital.Maybe doctors and nurses among all those people.Jim Jones was a devil in every aspect of his life
Well agreed, bubu Joe Estes, Jim Jones appeared to convey a sinister look on him well before Jonestown
My understanding was that there was a physician and a nurse at Jonestown. I read that People's Temple paid for the physician's training and that the physician was trained and served a residency in the United States. There were also multiple babies born there.
@@MiguelHernandez-rw4xu I agree. When they said women found him.attractive it is hard to believe. You can see the evil in his eyes before sun glasses. I think he is ugly.
Guyana has not been British Guiana since 1966.
True. Most people don't know of Guyana but have heard of British Guiana from their history classes in high school or university. I think that is why he called it British Guiana.
A thorough archaeological investigation of the area would find many artifacts, including bones which could help to identify victims.
They recovered all the body's and gave that place a cleaning
Their is at least one grave. Lisa Layton who died of lung cancer
Officially: "The Jonestown community experienced several deaths before November 18, 1978. Eight people died of natural causes in Jonestown between August 1977 and November 1978. Seven of the deaths were of seniors, between the ages of 63 and 78; the eighth was an infant who lived 18 days (...)
All eight bodies were buried in a small cemetery in Jonestown itself. The jungle has reclaimed the burial site - along with the rest of the Jonestown community - and the exact location of the cemetery is uncharted."
Source: Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple (2019)
@@hugoveracandia3562I never knew that, how interesting.
Mass murder not suicide
The guy Taylor, was he a survivor of Jonestown?
I'm 15 and living in Guyana and I didn't even know bout this and I'm sure most Guyanese have no clue either.
Your only 15 yr old unless they teach it in school or something you couldn't know it was either in 1979 or 1981 I remember hearing about it on the evening news when I was 19 back then there are documentaries on youtube about how he started out in the U.S. and why he went to Guyana , stay away from people like that he was a very bad man. It's good that the area where he was is all covered over with the natural green there.
@@williambahrenfuss4961 I live on Coastal areas being more specific the most populated area
Its sad how my country fights for political power based on racism and still suffers and no seems to care when they have power no not. They rather talk crap and not feed people, I'll go so far as to say even disabilities are ignored and the families rather ask for public support. Schools rather teach shit that doesn't benefits most of us and history is based bout on so little when there much to learn not saying or judging there teachings bcaz of this but because they repeat it over and over again since primary/middle school till on to high/secondary. To be honest this country is gold but people don't seem to realize it. But there is more crap to cover but I'm lazy to continue.
@@jamalhoosaney8614 I live on the coastal area,I'm also 17 and I know about Jonestown since I was about 8. They are tuns of Guyana history and Massacre you're yet to caught with since you don't know about this one.
@@jamalhoosaney8614 ECD R4 seen a few roadside signs and advertising BBQ and such at "Jonestown" but I'm sure it's not THE Jonestown the actual area is located to the NW of that area and W of Georgetown it's all weeded over. Jones was wacked out ...always use good sense. 👍🏿
@@jamalhoosaney8614 I wonder what they teach in Guyana school these days. I am saddened by your comments. I grew up on the East Coast of Demerara in a poor family. Worked in the farms.Went to high school .Worked in GT. Went abroad and studied. Returned to Guyana .Worked with the Government. Traveled to a lot of places in Guyana. I survived the political and racial strive in Guyana. You need to put your shoulder to the wheel and be positive and make something out of life.
I don't think the local was blaming the us government. He heard on the audio tape, which the presenter played to him, mention that a handful of people were to blame, and it sounded like he was theorising about who those few may have meant. I'm pretty sure the few people referred to were the 17 temple members who tried to leave with Congressman Ryan.
Hurtful families lamenting 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I know why the man blamed the US government..It is because the people who wanted to escape couldn't go to the US Embassy due to Jone's had people helping him in the embassy and they would report the people who came to them for help.
No dumbass he held them there at gun point have you seen paradise lost or is this the only thing you know of jones town is this one video that really dosnt talk about the entire thing
@@charlestorruella8591 That too, but there were some who got passed the guns and went for help at the embassy, but jones had people there as well..Dwyer worked at the embassy and was friends with jones.
@@charlestorruella8591 And on another point..leave out the petty insults in the future..it devalues the content of your comment by about 95%.
@@KaceyIlliot There was a guard tower that oversee the commune. The commune was about 3 miles from the main road. The airstrip and the port were about 3 to 4 miles away. Look at Google Earth and see where Jonestown and where Georgetown are located.
it's "GUY-ANNA"
fascinating
Now the area of that incident; nobody there 2 go there because of the massacre......
There's even dark spirits roaming around that area....
People are so stupid to give one person so much power
You give the government power they control you
Exactly! They're not heroes... they're extremist homicidal maniac's! They killed their own gottdamm children! 🙄
There were a lot of red flags before Jonestown
Was I in Oakland or SF?? Feel like Oakland wa used to save SF.
There is no way that the site isn't haunted.
Has to be alot of lost souls there.
I believe you!
Let's hope that the city of Jonestown in Region 1 (Barima-Waini) is re-founded and begins a new cycle of life, prosperity and development where that tragic event occurred.
Sure. Without the rainbow flag.
Sick psychopaths
I am from Guyana
Oakland was not the home of the temple. In California it was based in Ukiah and had churches in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The smell of death was all around⚰️☠️
WHERE IS PART 2 AND 3 ???
"Jones and a jewish doctor from New York were working on a proper poison mixture for nearly a year."
Now that's interesting. Didn't know that.
I don’t think it was a year. When his secretary fled he wanted to shoot everyone in the head. But didn’t have enough bullets and that’s when the search began. I think she escaped maybe six months prior
Yes true.
Wow Greg Robinson was the last person shot, that’s sad he was only 27 years old
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Wasn’t there another plane that taken off and got away ??
Didn't know so many people lived at Port Kaietuma. That was not far from Jonestown
back then few people live there.
actually back then nobody live there.
@@randysingh6548 That's no true. Port Kaietuma was an active Port that big boats used to go to bring out the Manganese ore.There was a rail from there to Matthew's ridge about 26 miles. There was active airstrip there.
Bubu: I saw a video that was done last September. Active little town .Nice hospital, school, port, market and surprisingly , a lot of vehicles.
Very sad!
The Poison was shipped to Jonestown years before 1978, this was a plan murder
Not only was it planned but we’ll orchestrated the problem is the racists trying to bring up excuses for this mans behavior he planned this for years there is no excuses he planned to kill all of those people with himself so the only thing I should be hearing is jones is a murderer that’s it
2 years old at time of this
It was the PNC government of Guyana led by Forbes Burnham who sold Jim Jones the land that his people cleared and settled on. The blame should be shared by all concerned.
Very true, agree but thats all in the past..
@@shampersaud2763 Know the past and guard it, the PNC is bent on rewriting the negative parts of their history.
Yes you are correct Jones weregiven the land , lots of peopke file pitition to goverment to realese there family but to no avail .
@@richard594 Guyana is in great hands under the current administration. Thankful that after 23 years it looks like a country again, with local voting restored to elect local government. Its sad that the PPP took away these basic and extremely important rights in our Democracy. Hence, to see the transformation of so much in terms of infrastructure and investment in education, hospitals and basic government buildings and technology as well as street lights, roads and job opportunities, in such little time gives this foreigner, hope for her home country.
Did he buy the land? That would bring reimbursement claims now from families.
I don't think he ever bought the land.
Sad
What hurts my heart is the people trusted him and committed their final act which was a sin for him and blasphemously used GODS name
Sort of true. But he had them rehearse this many time, without the poison. They probably just thought it was another harmless rehearsal
@@mjhudson98 the way that tape sounds… they knew what they were doing…
There were Guyanese defense force people at the Airport. They were guarding a plane that required repair. They watched the shootings, saying later, "This was a dispute between Americans and was not our affair". Most likely their mission was to guard the plane. If they had intervened without orders they would have been disciplined. Soldiers are not police officers.
Very interesting. How do you know so much about Jonestown?
@@lamanchamediatube Thank you very much for posting this video.
Most ventures in life fail, it's how we try again that matters.
I wish the people of Guyana and the survivors of Peoples Temple, much happiness.
Oh no they could have intervened you see it's called good poeple and the bad poeple are not good see how that works
@@jamallabarge2665GDF it's like a particular security. They only defend who pays them
The same way people are force to do things now. One small set of people are now trying to rule the nation. One man did this to so much people.
My teacher had a friend that was apart of the Jonestown suicide his name was Jerome
honestly they need to put the sign in museum because its there history no all history is good
That's not a orginial sign.
Deve ter sido muito trste
That place is haunted I would not set foot in Jonestown visit.
He needed locked up and the keys thrown away and put into a straight jacket
Really you would have keep him alive he killed himself what more can you do to punish him how could you punish him by keeping him alive so he can infect others with his sickness
So didn't the Guyanese government played any roll in this
Yes, didn't you see the white women in the movie?
ABSOLUTELY, HE DID HIS SECRECY AND WAS COLLECTING MONIES FROM JIM JONES BUT NOTHING LASTED FOREVER FOR BOTH OF THEM. THEY DIED TO NOT REAPING WHAT EVIL THEY HAD.SOWED.
Cia!!
Hey, you know no one has really talked about who the shooters were and if they survived….
He could be president today
At least he would be welcome at MaraLogo
No that was last year that we had a jim jones wannabe president and I hear he's opened his church up again so he can try to be president again in 2024 what say you now
R.I.P. to all those who lost life during that time. In my opinion {just my own} this has c.i.a. antics all interwoven in & thru it. At that time Guyana's leader Forbes Burnam had very close relation's with Russia & Cuba..Jim Jones could have been an agent sent to Guyana. Jones had shared similar concepts with these leaders {co-intelpro}. The death's of Americans on foreign soil could/maybe used in hopes to deploy US military to Guyana, giving them key spots on South American territory to spy on Venezuela, Cuba etc. at that time.
Interesting take, Wendim
900 people didn't commit suicide. Many were murdered by the henchmen of this madman. Some of them are still alive and breathing free air. That is another tragedy of itself.
I was a teen when this occurred, my mother was always speaking about Jim Jones, when this occurred, she was in the States n wrote me about it, thank God she didn’t become involved in it. She, (my mom), thought he was a good man, preaching the word of God. President Burnham didn’t sold that land to Jim Jones, Jim Jones, told President Burnham, that he was opening a missionary, and asked for permission to build there, many things said here isn’t true, I was still residing in Guyana, it was awful, the followers, thought it was a skit, never knew it was real. Jim Jones had some of his women followers pregnant, he took away their live savings, everything they owned, look, this brings back a terrible feelings to me. Jim Jones didn’t die, he never drank that cool aid, he got away n had plastic surgery, most likely, he’s dead now.
What evidence do you have that he got plastic surgery?
@@darlenerahaman8620 he was actually found dead with a gunshot wound on his head
Military Singh: There are more rumors than to what you are speculating.
This production has so much inaccuracies.,..... 1.it wasn’t British Guiana at that time, it was Guyana already an independent and republic nation. 2 Guyana didn’t refuse to bury the bodies, those bodies were US Nationals and they were coming to collect their dead. 3 the local man that was speaking Mr. Vince Duke is not an Amerindian, he’s an Afro Guyanese.
I read that the Guyanese did not want the Jonestown dead. They insisted that the US remove the bodies. I do not know why. The Guyanese removed money, valuables, and salt and pepper packets. The Guyanese did not use these, found them novel and used them in government offices for many years afterwards.
Locals removed the sheet metal and other valuables for their own purposes.
The US government yielded to their demands after the Carter Administration was influenced by California legislators to return the bodies. The US had a large Graves and Registration ability because of the Cold War and the recently ended Vietnam War. Most of the dead were reclaimed by their families.
About four hundred were buried in a mass grave in or near San Fransisco California. Cremated remains of some victims were located in the last few years. They were added to the mass grave with their rest of their fallen. Appropriate I think, that they are together.
@fyranism
What makes u think he isn't amerindians? My great grandmother is amerindian therefore my mother and her siblings are part amerindian. My uncle married a full blooded amerindian so my cousin is of a full amerindian mother and a part amerindian father but if u see my cousins u would think they were 100%black. Also if u do real history those people u call amerindian are NOT the true amerindians. The European described amerindians/native Indians as the people u now call black.
Staecy Vandeyar even so, you nor I don’t know what his full linage is , but they gave an impression that he was what we call in Guyana today as Amerindians. The discussion of who is pure 100% is a topic for another discussion. That man may or may not have had Amerindian heritage but if he did they needed to call him for what he is which is mixed . False advertising
One has to wonder if he's really this ignorant of the subject (which if he is, he has no business making a documentary) or if he's deliberately being dishonest. Perhaps a bit of both?
U guys have it wrong Guyana government was deeply involve
@ihategoogle Ok, I do understand and believe what you said too but why kept it a secret for so long? Obviously, it was a source of foul play and money..My dear,GOD IS GREAT, WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS LIGHT, WHERE THERE ARE LIES, TRUTH PREVAIL.
So true
How deeply that there source if income would kill them selfs and bring the usa knocking at there door doh need i say it
Malon James: So true!!!!!!!!
Oakland was NOT the home of the California Church. It was the Geary St. Temple in San Francisco
There is a lot of mis and disinformation in this video. Very typical Evangelist spin on anything Christian's do that is pure evil. One must wonder, is he actually ignorant or is he being deliberately dishonest. Maybe a bit of both?
This is absolutely nightmare fule, imagine sitting there, and you want to escape, and people hold you and inject you. Pff, I need to stop.
Be not deceived
they hated their own country but that very country
still respected them and buried their body's for memorial................
Great comment and insight. Thanks
same country that SEGREGATED THEM AND REFISED CIVIL RIGHTS FOR HOW LONG! You think people are just going to do that?
@@julianakleijn9254 It was the states that segregated people not the federal government.